Table of Contents: “…Zone making -- Midfield wars -- Origins of violence -- Looking ahead -- Insurgency -- Organization -- Competitive origins -- Building trust -- Extracting resources -- The Weberian experiment failed -- Organizational inertia -- Ideology -- Fight for independence -- Inviting foreign pressure -- Domestic bargaining -- Strategy -- A border specialist -- Reaching out -- High premiums -- Back to Botan -- Counterinsurgency -- Organization -- Administrative solutions -- Specialist governance -- Redistricting -- Rural retreat -- Ideology -- Rural bias -- Foreign sponsors -- Developmentalist response -- The backup plan: co-optation model -- Strategy -- Locating the insurgent -- Sweep and strike -- Curbing civilian unrest -- No-entry zone -- Forging identities -- Path dependent origins -- Room for contingency.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Shores, pioneering civil rights lawyer -- Thomas Sowell, conservative economist and social commentator -- Vaino Spencer, long-tenured, first female African-American judge in California -- Linda Thomas-Greenfield, career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Liberia -- Yaya Toure, acclaimed Manchester City midfielder from the Ivory Coast -- William Tubman, patriarchal president of Liberia from 1944 to 1971 -- Laura Wheeler Waring, dedicated Harlem Renaissance painter and educator -- Warren Widener, Berkeley, CA's first black mayor -- Patrick Willis, determined All-Pro linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers -- David Augustus Williston, respected landscape architect who designed Tuskegee grounds -- Lionel Wilson, first African-American mayor of Oakland, CA -- Meles Zenawi, powerful prime minister of Ethiopia.…”
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